James Clarke Welling (July 14, 1825 – September 4, 1894) was the President of Columbian University, now the George Washington University, Washington, DC, from 1871 to 1894.

[2] James Clarke Welling was born in Trenton, New Jersey on July 14, 1825.

[4] Welling was a professor at Princeton when in 1871 he accepted the presidency of Columbian College.

[7] "The last occasion in which he appeared in public was at the laying of the new cornerstone of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

"[8] Welling died at his summer residence in Hartford, Connecticut on September 4, 1894.